talk into
English
[edit]Verb
[edit]talk into (third-person singular simple present talks into, present participle talking into, simple past and past participle talked into)
- (transitive) To convince (someone) by talking and suggesting.
- Antonym: talk out of
- At the beginning, I wasn't keen on working the weekend shift, but my boss talked me into it.
- She talked him into making the investment.
- 2022, Chuck Klosterman, The Nineties, New York: Penguin Press, →ISBN:
- It’s still hard to accept that an abstract geographic rivalry resulted in the murders of the genre’s two biggest stars, but that was what happened. They’d talked themselves into it.
Translations
[edit]convince by talking and suggesting
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